President Trump and White House AI adviser David Sacksthis weekend defended the administration’s strategy of minimal regulation after the heads of the nation’s top artificial-intelligence companies endorsed a coordinated slowdown in the technology’s development.
“We can put up guardrails, and we can do this and that, but I think you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up,” Trump told reporters Sunday while traveling in Ireland. “And they’re bringing up things that won’t happen.”
The president reiterated his belief that the U.S. must outpace China in building AI, saying “whoever wins AI wins.”
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